Focusing on five villages located in the uplands in north-east Luzon, this paper assesses the response to a government program that supplied tenure security to upland farmers in exchange for tree planting, implemented through an NGO project that supported farmers with advice, logistics and free ...
Biomass fuel supply and utilization in the cities of the developing world: A case study of Cebu City, Philippines. The presence of urban woodfuel and other wood product markets serves as a strong incentive for increased tree-planting and management in rural areas.; These results suggest that in...
This paper aims to identify the determinants of households' participation in tree planting activities using available survey data, which included 797 randomly selected smallholder households from five REDD+ pilot project sites in Southern Leyte, Philippines. Binary logit regression model was employed to ...
In 2004, Wangari Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for leading the Greenbelt Movement to plant trees across Africa, and in July 2019, the Ethiopian government garnered extensive publicity when thousands of volunteers planted a record 350 million trees in 1 day. Countless tree planting ...
With respect to the racial diversity of the population within the region, the top six countries of birth of residents spans Australia (79 %), England (4.6 %), New Zealand (1.7 %), Philippines (0.7 %), India (0.7 %) and South Africa (0.6 %) (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021)....
During a university class project related to climate change mitigation strategies, we utilized a university green space as a “living laboratory”
One Year after Planting- While still dormant, cut the whole hedge down to 6 inches Two Years after Planting- While still dormant, cut the regrowth of the hedge down to 18 inches in height (so keep the initial 6 inches from the previous year’s cut, and then cut everything above 1 ...
The fruit flies, Dacus ferrugineus and D. zonatus, attack the mango in India; D. tryoni (now Strumeta tryoni) in Queensland, and D. dorsalis in the Philippines; Pardalaspis cosyra in Kenya; and the fruit fly is the greatest enemy of the mango in Central America. Because of the presenc...
each time setting and maturing fruit. In the Philippines, various methods are employed to promote flowering: smudging (smoking), exposing the roots, pruning, girdling, withholding nitrogen and irrigation, and even applying salt. In the West Indies, there is a common folk practice of slashing the...
"Progress has been good!" Hudson said. "But slow because we've been working on a shoestring budget." But a recent government grant, as part of the State's Advance Queensland Engaging Science program, has helped the development reach its final stage. ...